The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-11-12
News of the Week.

pears to be subsiding.
The hog cholera has made its appearance
in Upper Warren county, New Jersey. anu
hogs are dying by the score. The inspectors
authorized by the State are making an inspee-
ton.
The drouth of last summer has, no doubt
in the long run, been great beneht 70 iowa
Hundreds of acres of land have been drainea'
many artesian wells dug. and also gas us
covered, all the result of the dry season.
David Snowberger, living in Quincy town
ship, Penna., went cunning ON SATURDAY.
While climbing up an embankment ms gun
was accidentally discharged and the top OF
his head was blown off, causing instant deatn.
Some of the arch timbers in the tunnel
being constructed on the new DRESDEN
branch of the Cleveland, Akron and Coium,
bus Railroad, near Coshocton, OHIO, on
Monday, fell, killing one man and injuring
four others, one fatally.
While FIVE men were smoking IN shsnly
at Bridgeport, West Virginia, on Saturday,
n shark fell into keg of powder, blowing up
the house. Two ofthe men-f. kichter anu
Julius Buckhotlz-were killed, and the others
were injured, perhaps MORALLY
A Cheboygan (Michigan) dispatch says the
damage and total loss to vessel properly lor
the month of October. in the straits and VI
cinity. from Fore Island to Hammond Bay
on Lake Huron, can be fairly estimated at
1000 Eighteen lives were lost.
Twenty freshmen ofthe State University at
Madison. Wisconsin, have been arrested Tor
hazing son of Professor Rosentengel, OF the
University. They had rope around the
Young mans neck and were dragging nm 10
Lake Mendoto when the police interferred.
The daughter and son of j. Schroeder,
aged four and six years respectively, were
PLAYING around bonfire in New Brunswlck,
New Jersey, on Friday, when the girl fell INTO
the flames Her brother attempted to rescue
her, but failed, and both were burned 10
death.
At the weekly meeting of Baptist pastors in
New York, Monday, there was warm DIS
cussien on the question Of whether Dr. Nc
Glynn should be invited to address the body
At a previous meeting motion to ths same
effect was lost The matter was hnaily lald
on the table.
1t is reported that further incendiary at
tempts were made in Dubuque on Saturday
night, fires having been started IN different
parts of the city. In two cases klndling WOOD
saturated with benzine was placed In lumber
yards under piles of seasoned lumber It IS
said that one firm has decided TO ciose down
until the danger is over.
A passenger train on the Atchison and Ne
braska Railroad ran into a freight train near
Atchison, Kansas, on Saturday morning.
The caboose, occupied by six men. was tele-
scoped. One the men was scalded to death;
all of the others were severely scalded. and
one of them is not expected to recover.
The steamer City of New York arrived at
San Francisco from Hong Kong last Friday
night, and reports that the typhoon which
ragged on the night of September 18th struck
the Island of Hoi Sing. The general opinion
is that hundred or two hundred persons
were drowned At Chick Lung 80 lives were
lost.
Four tons of molten steel were run into a
wet receptacle in the works of the Springfield
Iron Company, near Springfield, Illinois,
early on Saturday morning, and tremendous
explosion followed. The entire city was
shaken by the conclusion. In the works
about 20 men were injured, three danger
ously.
Alta meeting of prominent citizens of Attain
Ia, Georgia, on Saturday, it was decided to
invite Hon. John G. Carlisle to visit that city
and talk upon tariff reform at the earliest date
possible. This is understood to be the hrst
move in q tariff reform campaign about to be
begun in the State in the interest of Senator
Colquitt
The New York Quarantine Commissioner
had long interview with the Secretary OF the
Treasury last week in regard to the adoption
of measures to protect the Atlantic ports
against cholera infected vessels. 1t Is under
stood that the Commissioner held that such
infected vessels should be turned back upon
arrival in America and compelled to return to
the country whence they came.
Iataofavao arrastad
William Fritz, Edward Youse and Adam Mil
Ter. in Reading, Penna., for passing counter
felt money. The officers obtained a full CON
fession, giving description of the place where
the counterfeit money is made, and implicit
ing dozen persons. According to the con-
fession Eastern Pennsylvania has been Hooded
with bogus money.
There is trouble in the Sacred Heart Church
in Dayton, Ohio, over the retirement by Arch
bishop Elder of Father McDevitt, who has
been sent to the Passionist Monastery in Pitts
burg. Father Finerty was assigned to the
and protest against the change
was sent to and disregarded' by the Arch
bishop. Several members of the church COM
mittee have resigned. Father Finerty cele-
brated mass Monday.
A telegram from Indianapolis says typhoid
fever is alarmingly prevalent in Indiana, and
it does not seem to be confined to any partlc-
ular locality. Physicians think it is largely
due to impure water, as the long continued
drouth of last summer caused the pure water
supply to fall short. Many wells have become
dry, and people in Warrick county are paying
25 and 80 cents barrel for water for domes-
tic purposes.
Reports published in Chicago show con-
tinued scarcity of water for stock in many
aonaciallv in the States of Ohio
Indiana, Illinois and Iowa. Unless copious
rains are experienced before the setting in of
winter many farmers will find themselves in
yolyed in serious difficulty in providing the
necessary water for their stock. The contin-
ued drought in these States has also lessened
the usual amount of fall blowing.
Mrs. Cleveland has received from Frederick
Sullivan, Postmaster of Jamaica, through Su-
perintendent Bell, of the Foreign Mail Service,
an elaborate and handsome fan made at the
Woman's Self. Help Institution, of Jamaica,
of native woods, ferns and flowers, artistically
arranged. In letter accompanying the fan,
Sullivan says that sit is not intended as a
present, but as first offering of what Jamaica
has to give in return for the great boon of q
parcel.post exchange between the United
States and Jamaica, recently approved.
The first truss of the great Poughkeepsie
bridge across the Hudson river was finished
and swung clear on Monday. 1t is the long
est steel truss in the world, being 525 feet
long between the centres of the towers, 81
feet deep and So feet wide. II rests on steel
towers 100 feet high, which stand on mason
" piles having foundations l25 feet below
high water mark, and which rise 30 feet
above high water, the total heigh from the
foundations being 337 feet. The bridge car
ries floor system on top for double track
railway, and can support a rolling load of
5000 pounds to the running foot on each track.
In Richie county, W. Va, Friday last,
Charles Weinricht, young man, aged about
IL years, was engaged in hauling lumber com,
monty called lockwood, on a sled. While
descending very steep hill with a heavy load
the team became unmanageable and started to
run, Weinricht still remaining on the load
when the sled ran against sapling which
few back striking him on the head, and in
some way throwing him under the sled,
which ran over him. Death must have been
instantaneous, as it was found that his bowels
were crushed, his hips, legs and arms broken,
and his skull fractured. He was discovered
about an hour afterward.
The Supreme Court of Utah, at Salt Lake
on Saturday night, unanimously decided to
anno;nt n ranaiyar for the Mnrmon Church